Duncan Jones Quotes
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Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
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I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.
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My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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I'd love to do a Western.
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My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.
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Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
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'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.
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I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.
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I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
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I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
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I'm not the guy who does slo-mo, or I'm not the guy who does splashing rain or doves flying or anything; that's not me. Every film, I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.
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My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
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'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
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It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late '70s and '80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings.
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I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
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I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.
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I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.
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I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.